Quotes about Compassion
Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies.
— Marianne Williamson
Learning to live for others isn't something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.
— Joyce Meyer
The power of forgiveness transcends personal relationships.
— Eric Metaxas
Transformation in the world happens when people are healed and start investing in other people.
— Michael Smith
Our task, in the aftermath of September 11, was and continues to be the transformation of the effects of evil into something beautiful and good.
— Marianne Williamson
Christmas is, for those who wish to follow the way of Jesus, an invitation to accept into our comfortable and safe lives those who come to us from far away, who seem ragged, marginal, in transition.
— Jay Parini
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
— Sojourner Truth
Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and can be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission; to be of service to them whenever they request it.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
She] personally tended the unhappy and impoverished victims of hunger and disease. I have often seen her washing wounds which others — even men — could hardly bear to look at ... She founded a hospital and gathered there the sufferers from the streets, and gave them all the attention of a nurse... How often she carried home, on her shoulders, the dirty and poor who were plagued with epilepsy! How she washed the pus from sores which others could not even behold.
— St. Jerome
Love the sinner and hate the sin.
— St. Augustine
It is as if he should feel that there is an enemy who could be more destructive to himself than that hatred which excites him against his fellow man; or that he could destroy him whom he hates more completely than he destroys his own soul by this same hatred.
— St. Augustine